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Citing Your Sources

Our citation guide has information to help you cite and format your paper in, AMAAPAChicagoCSEIEEEMLA and Vancouver (Citing Medicine).

It also has information about using Zotero, a free online tool to generate citations and manage the resources you find in your research:

AMA Style

AMA Style Guide from OWL
The OWL at Purdue provides guidance on creating citations in the AMA Style. 

APA Style

APA Style Guide from OWL
The OWL at Purdue has an excellent guide to using the APA style, including creating citations, formatting your paper/project, and more. 

IEEE Style

IEEE Style Guide from OWL
The OWL at Purdue provides guidance on using the IEEE style, including creating citations, formatting tables/figures, and more. 

MLA Style

MLA Style Guide from OWL
The OWL at Purdue has an excellent guide to using the MLA style, including creating citations, formatting your paper/project, and more. 

Zotero: Free Citation Tool

Zotero is a free, open-source tool you can use to keep track of the sources you find, organize them, and create citations.

To get started, you'll need to download both Zotero and the Zotero Browser Connector. Both downloads are found on this webpage: 

How to Use Zotero

VIDEO: How to Use Zotero Connector

Save time by using the Zotero Connector in your browser! This 3-minute video shows you how:

Looking for a Comprehensive Tutorial on Zotero?

The Virginia Tech tutorial below will help people who want to be power users of Zotero. It comprehensively covers almost everything you'd want to know about using Zotero. 

How to Cite Mergent & First Research Reports in APA

The APA does not have specific guidance on citing sources like Mergent and First Research. Below is the best match for citing these.


Format for Citing Reports & Gray Literature

Author Date Title Publisher DOI or URL

Author, A.A. 

Name of Group

(2023).

(2023, May 2).

Title of report.

Title of report, (Report No.123).

Title of report [Description].

 

Publisher Name.

https://doi.org/xxx

https://xxxx

Only include a retrieval date if the report itself has no date.

 

Mergent Company Profile Example:

Mergent. (n.d.). Turtle Island Foods [Company profile]. Retrieved January 9, 2023, from https://www.mergentonline.com

 

First Research Example:

Dun & Bradstreet. (2021, March 15). Sporting Goods Stores [Industry profile]. First Research. https://www.mergentintellect.com